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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






2. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






3. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






4. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






5. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






6. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






7. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






8. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






9. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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10. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






11. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






12. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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13. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






14. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






15. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






16. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






17. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






18. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






19. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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20. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






21. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






22. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






23. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






24. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






25. Wide Range Achievement Test






26. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






27. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






28. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






29. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






30. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






31. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






32. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






33. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






34. Closed syllable






35. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






36. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






37. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






38. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






39. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






40. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






41. Ability to understand and express spoken language






42. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






43. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






44. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






45. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






46. r-controlled syllable






47. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






48. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






49. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






50. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.